Twenty tan and black towels
Just a pile o’ wet fuzz
One little pink sock
Told me right where I was…

I’m in the washroom, baby (back in the washroom, baby)
I’m in the washroom, baby (back in the washroom, baby)
I’m in the washroom, baby, face down on the flo’
(dah dwee da dump, dah dweedle a dump, dah dwee-aah)
And Miss Miranda H. Mama…
(all stop for a four-count)
…She don’t need me no mo’

Squeee. I’ll change the color of my 1950’s dentist-office green bathroom tiles for him/her. I love towels, (so says Killer’s Daddy). At least this way, it will always be warm when I emerge from my ablutions! And the towels will get bigger instead of smaller with time! Oh, this is a win-win for sure. What a wonderful photo.

This song comes from the rare 78 of Blind Theo Kumquat recorded by Alan Lomax in the Mississippi Delta in 1934. Blind Theo, an impoverished sharecropper, sat sat with his harp on the front porch of his crumbling shack as Lomax set up the recording equipment. His pug, Towels, sat at Blind Theo’s feet. (He was too poor to afford the traditional no ‘count hound dawg.) The song was recorded in one take, with Blind Theo stopping only occasionally to take a pull from his jar of busthead moonshine.

Blind Theo Kumquat never enjoyed the fame that came to some other Delta bluesmen. He was supposed to take the bus to Chicago with Muddy Waters, but had to stay home and do laundry.

[I guess I can see why I don’t remember any of this. It’s a shame, really, but at least somebody was taking notes. ;) – Ed.]

This picture is NOT cute at all. Because this dog has been ‘bred’ to have all this excess skin which forms all these folds on its face the poor little animal has all sorts of day to day problems. With this kind of characteristic the dog can have problems seeing and can develop skin disorders because of all the skin folds. The dog, because of the way it has been ‘bred’ to look ‘cute’, also has real problems breathing because its nose has been squashed in and is also very small. Us humans have done this to this breed of dog and NOTHING about it is in any way cute.

The way the pug dog has been ‘bred’ to look like this is cruel. Some people may think this ‘look’ is cute but cute for whom? … for us, not the dog. Think of the well being of the dog. I can assure you that this dog’s life is not a happy one because of the health problems humans have bred into it.

Twinkle, well what do you expect we should do about it right this minute? Do you have some kind of “shunning” program for the puppies in mind?
I agree dogs shouldn’t be bred in ways that cause them to have unhealthy lives. But in the meantime the so-called “deformed” dogs are with us, and they need love just as much as the “un-deformed” dogs, whatever they are.

*standard blues riff*
I saw a tiny yorkie, it was a sweet baby boy
He was soft in my arms, and kissed all my fingers long
I got the tiny doggie bluuuues yeaaaahhhhh,
I got those doggone blues
They won’t let me keep a doggie, here in my own apartment room yeah!

wannadance: I tried to copy and paste but that didn’t work. I hope we can figure this out. In the meantime, I have a question…How the heck do you put a picture with your comment??

[If you mean that little avatar pic that some of us have, that’s because we have WordPress accounts, and have uploaded a little thumbnail photo to kinda be visually self-representative. The accounts are free (as in free) and Cute Overload itself is a WordPress blog, these days. – Ed.]

queen, that is exactly why this won’t work. i have no idea, am just flopping around hoping some nerd will happen along. now i cannot even get then deleted…sigh…am irrationally afraid someone will steal my identity. and all my money, which amounts to about six dollars and t weny five cents…

where are the admins when you need them???? help? mike, theo, meg?????

[Looks like it’s just me, tonight. Photobucket is a good suggestion, esp. if all you really want to do is post & share pix. Flickr is another obvious choice. – Ed.]

when the admins take all this useless crap off and replace it with one pristine effective THANG, the board will look a lot better. profound apologies for crudding it up….queen, we need to yak sometime…

Wannadance – I can’t help but ask; what happened to you. Illness accident ?
To loose full mobility for anyone is bad, but for a dancer it must be doubly so.
PS you don’t need to reply if you’d rather not.

@hon glad….no prob. i had polio in early childhood, not really a bad case, just a little deformation and some leg problems. no one talked about it back then because it was such an awful plague, even though relatively few people were badly affected.

decades later, i started falling down a lot, was a respiratory therapist and still a dancer. weakness and pain, fatigue, all uncontrollable and no matter what i did, it only got worse. turned out to be POSTPOLIO SYNDROME, of which i had never heard and neither had many of my docs, most were too young. turned out to be quite common among polio survivors, 50-75%. and oddly, more sever in those who had mild cases earlier.

so that is the story. i just plain can’t walk anymore. have lost muscle mass, strength, torn ligaments and hurt tendons, broken bones, etc. to where getting out of the wheelchair is not worth it.

AND i inherited a progressive blindness from my father, who forgot to tell me, i guess. it’s a cornea thing. so a nearly blind woman in a motor wheelchair? wheeeeeeee!!

this stuff is not nearly as bad as my friends my age (nearly 68) who are dead or suffering from cancer or heart disease. the mottled thing on the back of the headrest is an amnesty international sticker. i have darfur stickers and medicins sans frontiers stickers and various crip stickers, plus scarves and sequins and flags. i may appear demented to some, but what do i care? i am old, blind and crippled. to hell with my critics!
so that’s the story. i miss dance like breath. i miss medicine. i miss working in the homeless shelter clinic, which was the best thing i ever did with my education. i sleep like a neonate or a kitty, hours and hours. i moan and groan and swear from pain. but mostly i laugh.

Wannadance – I am impressed that you keep on keeping on.
My Mum had Macula degeneration and my Dad Glaucoma. Now my older Sister and Younger brother have Glaucoma, so far, except for age related Myopia I’m OK.
We think the fact that both my Sister and Brother had Scarlet fever at a young age, has given them eye problems. They both had glasses at about 12 years old, whereas I was 50 when I had my first glasses.
Anyway keep up the battle. : )

Wannadance: hope you’re feelin’ a Big Baroo & a Kosmic Hug, from the CO Universe !!! You add wit & perception daily to the site. Wish I could magically remove 150 % of the hassles/ trauma that you’ve endured.

Meantime. yes, Theo, this pic & storyline get me votes fer at the very least, the Top Five CO posts of all time (& only not in Top Three, cuz CO is so often brilliante; beaucoup de richesses, doncha know? Yep, shur, Yewbetcha)

@wannadance:
Your attitude and positivity have really given me something of a quick boot….up out of the “chair of misery.” (i.e., my current computer chair). Many sympathies for your physicality, but ain’t nothing wrong with your strength of will and purpose. Believe that you have given me some support today. *sending you a blown kiss*